1917 (2019)
1917 takes place in Northern France amid the Great War. Lance Corporals Blake (Dean-Charles Chapman) and Schofield (George MacKay) are two British soldiers commanded to carry orders from their General (Colin Firth) across No...
Author: Vincent Leo
Ford v Ferrari (2019) | aka Le Mans ’66
James Mangold continues his string of choice character-driven dramas with Ford v. Ferrari (aka Le Mans ’66 in most other parts of the world). This true story had been in Hollywood for decades before being made,...
Star Wars: Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker
The Rise of Skywalker is a bit like the final season of “Game of Thrones”: it restlessly tries to tie up all of its loose ends in its finale without allowing for the proper...
The Irishman (2019)
The Irishman is a tale spun from the vantage point of an older man in a nursing home and displayed through a series of extended confessional flashbacks. Robert De Niro takes the lead role...
Outrageous Fortune (1987)
Although the subgenre had been around almost as long as talkies were, Outrageous Fortune is notable for being the first “buddy comedy” from Hollywood to boast two female actors as the stars. There are...
Dark Waters (2019)
Dark Waters is a film based on the true story of a corporate lawyer who ends up taking on DuPont Chemical. The origin of the screenplay originated from a Nathaniel Rich expose on attorney Rob...
Real Men (1987)
Real Men is a buddy action-comedy, which usually means that the plot is shallow to seeing the comic shenanigans the two leads get into and the banter it inspires. It’s a formula proposition, but...
Wild Style (1983)
A drama with some documentary-worthy concert performances, Wild Style, which is a slang term for the jittery lettering of graffiti, is a seminal hip-hop film, covering some of the origins of the art form in the...
Knives Out (2019)
Genre-hopping writer-director Rian Johnson has done a neo-noir teen flick in Brick, a family crime dramedy in The Brothers Bloom, a twisty time-travel sci-fi excursion in Looper. More famously, he also ushered in the...
Bombshell (2019)
Bombshell is a somewhat loose recounting of the toxic, cultish, and highly sexist atmosphere that permeated Fox News under the tenure of their CEO, Roger Ailes. Most of the events that take place in...